hell if i know, i don’t understand pokemons

I got a whammy bar

New idea, combination toilet/egg slicer

unless it’s that one video with the cardboard bear

patrick you really need to find actual hobbies

Well I never thought I’d see the day

If we limit the kitten slaughter to behavioral euthanasia and increase the taxes on the wealthy to a similar level, idk maybe I’d vote for it

i don’t wonder. i have charts and graphs explaining why people side-eye me. there’s even a powerpoint!

It’s wrong to blame the voters for a garbage candidate.

that logic excuses voters for trump and i’m not ready to do that.

i hate feeling conspiratorial talking about this, but there’s been signs of electoral fraud (different from voter fraud (which is generally just one person). it happens at the other end of the system and is much worse) in that win. i have not had the time to delve deeply into it, but shit got a certain stink

abdul’s 27% turnout got more votes than kamala’s 75% turnout, which is notable. both directions, too. the other thing i’d draw from this is that harris was not a good candidate and that el-sayed is.

just first glance impressions though, i’d want to dig into the data before making any authoritative claims

and the tax one.

this is a pretty comprehensible outline of each US state’s tax structure. it goes in depth as well, but what you’re probably looking for is on pages 152 and 153 (that’s their specific outline on Missouri), 204-205 (same as Missouri, but the US average) 24-32 (income tax features) or 33-35 (sales tax features). the pdf has chapters so it’s easier to navigate.

in short, in the US nearly every tax is regressive [applies more heavily to the poor]. in states with no income tax, the poor pay a much greater percentage of their income toward taxation [all taxes, not just income tax. fuel taxes. sales taxes. property taxes, &c] than the rich do. properly built, progressive [applies more heavily to the rich and wealthy] income tax structures balance that out so everyone pays about the same amount. see pages 28-30

it’s specifically why US republicans seem hell bent on removing income taxes

probably? you know how you have that one lamp you don’t want to look at, maybe theirs was the salt block lamp.

the seller maybe added some spray on agent to protect the salt, although I really don’t see any reason why they would do that

i had a friend whose salt lamp either dissolved or evaporated. she swears she never saw her cats lick it, but c’mon dude.

“this person there uses a word in a way i don’t like so no one can use the word at all until i say so”

this is how you come off, by the way

make that 15. krasnov was running for election 10 years ago.

Chicken feet in brown sauce. The brown sauce wasn’t even good

The best idea I saw had 18 year terms and each president may nominate 3 during their term, leading to a 27 member court. My math says 24 members so I must be misremembering something

For that website? Yeah it’s a bigger deal for them to be saying this than idk, Washington Post or Huffington Post or Emily Post. maybe not Emily Post I take that back. I used to read the hill when I was more in politics. It was a fairly reliably [in the lens of the US Overton window, moderate/conservative/semicentrist] perspective.

ah, a royal sampler